Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Christopher Nolan's new World War II blockbuster tells the epic true story of over 400,000 soldiers from Britain, Belgium, France and Canada who were surrounded and bombarded by GermanForces at the harbour and beaches of Dunkirk in 1940 for eight days when over 338,000 were heroically rescued by a ragtag fleet made up of 800 fishing boats, merchant marine boats, pleasure crafts and lifeboats.

Dunkirk movie exhibit at ArcLight Hollywood cinema

This cool exhibit of costumes and part of an aircraft cockpit fuselage for the WWII film was photographed on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema on July 17, 2017.

This costume was worn by Barry Keoghan as one of the young men that sailed to Dunkirk, France from England with other citizens to help the rescue the stranded soldiers.

British Army private costume worn by Harry Styles

as Alex in Dunkirk

This costume should please One Direction fans (a sentence I never thought I'd type on this blog), as it's the British Army private uniform worn by Harry Styles as 'Alex' in the movie. At his feet are propaganda pamphlets dropped by the Nazis to demoralise the Allied Forces at Dunkirk.

RAF pilot costume worn by Jack Lowden

as Collins in Dunkirk

Writer and director Christopher Nolan's film shows the perspective of this conflict from land, sea and air and this Royal Air Force pilot costume was worn by Jack Lowden as 'Collins'.

Shivering Soldier costume worn by Cillian Murphy

in Dunkirk

Meanwhile repeat Nolan collaborator Cillian Murphy plays a shivering soldier pulled from the freezing water with PTSD in this film.